CONVERSATION

Pól: (pohl): Dia duit, a Róisín (DEE-uh git, uh roh-SHEEN). Hello, Rose.

Róisín: Dia's Muire duit, a Phóil (DEE-uhs MWIR-uh git, uh FOH-il). Conas tátú? (KUN-uhs taw* too) Hello, Paul. How are you?

Pól: Támégo maith (taw* may* goh mah). Agus conas tátúféin? I am well. And how are you?

Róisín: Támégo maith leis (lesh). I am well, too.

Pól: An bhfuil aon scéal nua agat? (un vwil ay*n shkay*l NOO-uh uh-GUHT) Have you any news? ("new story," literally).

Róisín: Níl. Ach bhíméag léamh an nuachtáin aréir (uh LAY*-uhv un NOO-uhk-taw*-in uh-RAY*R). I don't. But I was reading the paper last night. Rud suimiúil a chonaic mé(rud sim-OO-il uh K*UHN-ik may*). An interesting thing I saw. Táraidióagus teilifíseán ag beagnach gach duine sa tír seo (taw* RAH-dee-oh AH-guhs TEL-i-fee-shaw*n eg BYUHG-nahk* gahk* DIN-e suh teer shuh). Nearly everyone in this country has a radio and television set.

Pól: Níl teilifíseán agamsa (uh-GUHM-suh). I don't have a television. An bhfuil teilifíseán agatsa? Have you one?

Róisín: O, tá, agus táceann (kyoun) ag gach cara eile liom (KAH-ruh EL-e luhm). Oh, I do, and every other friend of mine has one.

Irish Lesson 19

PRONUNCIATION

Two letter groups, "adh" and "agh", are usually pronounced (eye) when in accented syllables inside a word. Here are examples for "adh":

adharc (EYE-uhrk), horn

radharc (REYE-uhrk), sight

Tadhg (teyeg), Tadhg, a man's name

gadhar (GEYE-uhr), hound

fadhb (feyeb), problem

Some examples for "agh":

aghaidh (EYE-ee), face

laghad (LEYE-uhd), least

slaghdán (SLEYE-daw*n), a cold, hay fever

ÓRaghallaigh (oh REYE-lee), O'Reilly

If the letter group "adh" is at a word end or in an unaccented syllable, it does not take the (eye) sound. For example:

samhradh (SOU-ruh), summer; ionadh (OON-uh), wonder. Many verbal nouns are similar: dúnadh (DOON-uh), closing; briseadh (BRISH-uh), breaking; glanadh (GLUHN-uh), cleaning.

VOCABULARY

Masculine Nouns

néal, na néalta (nay*l, nuh NAY*L-tuh), cloud, the clouds

biseach (BI-shahk*), recovery

slaghdán (SLEYE-daw*n) a cold

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